Chapter 985: Universal Fairness

Seeing that it is about to enter November, the business of the Sitong Firm is actually very busy, and the large shipping fleet will arrive soon, and the next is the feast of the New Year.

No one wants to get along with money, and countless businessmen within a month's journey from Bianjing have begun to gather at Bianjing Wharf, and the hotels and residences around the wharf have been fully booked by the merchants who have come.

This situation has surpassed the excitement of the imperial examination.

Sitong is the biggest eater, in addition to business, but also responsible for the work of whitewashing the peaceful and prosperous Kaifeng Mansion for His Majesty.

The tasks assigned by the government are Aoshan, palace lanterns, and brocade banners; a market organized by Kaifeng Prefecture and Inner Workshops; The year-end financial liquidation of the clan, the honorable and other shareholders, the gift giving, and the emotional contact......

Various arrangements for important partners from outside the country to come to Beijing for eating, drinking, and having fun......

In the whole New Year, it is still the time to open a big gambling game, and if you don't engage in some New Year's lottery, lantern riddles, and equestrian championship lottery, the people of Bianjing will not agree!

Therefore, the gambling industry, sponsored by the Emperor Song Charity Foundation and undertaken by Sitong Firm, has to be done well in the New Year, which can be regarded as being forced by the people of Bianjing to make a crazy profit.

It's not easy to make all this beautiful.

Therefore, Su You couldn't delay other people's efforts too much, and only told everyone that he would stay in Wei's Winter Village until the New Year, so that Xiaomei and Chen Zhaoming would get together there after the court holiday, and the family would recuperate for a few days.

Out of the Sitong business, Su You asked the warehouse to buy a cart of New Year's goods for Cheng Yue, and asked him to hurry back to Xuzhou to visit his family.

Sending Cheng Yue away, Zhang San also broke up with Su You, he also has an errand on him now, and it is still important that since the person has arrived in Bianjing, he has to go to the Third Division, and report to several places in the internal treasury to inform them that they are ready to receive supplies.

So only Ping Zhengsheng was left by Su You's side.

Su You asked him, "Don't you go to Dengying Pavilion?" ”

Japan did not have an embassy in the Great Song Dynasty before, and it was crowded into the protocol with other small countries.

Masamori Taira is now a legend in Japan, and there are already legends that he popped out of a peach.

One person decided to participate in the alliance of the countries organized by the Great Song Dynasty to defeat Jiaozhi, and then served as the head of the archery and the front-line commander in the anti-riot war to protect the people of Sanzhou, with outstanding achievements.

After Su You reported to Zhao Xuan, Zhao Xuan waved his pen and built an embassy for Japan in Bianjing City, naming it Dengying Pavilion, which was equivalent to upgrading diplomatic relations.

I heard that the emperor specially summoned the head of the Heike family for this purpose, and greatly praised Momotaro and canonized him as a samurai of the north.

Ping Zhengsheng pouted: "It's all some businessmen, monks, I can't tell them to go anywhere......"

Su You said, "Then go to Dongzhuang with me and your brother-in-law?" ”

"Yes, yes!" Ping Zhengsheng has been waiting for this sentence for a long time.

When he came to Su Song's house, the old gatekeeper was getting older and older.

Su Song's generosity and kindness are famous in the Great Song Dynasty, and looking at this posture, I don't know who is taking care of whom.

After greeting the old man, Su You entered the house, but saw that the clan brother was wearing reading glasses, his head down, flipping through his manuscript notes, and proofreading a book.

Su You came in, Su Song didn't look up, his eyes turned out from above the glasses frame: "Mingrun is here." ”

"What are you doing, brother?"

"It's okay to be idle, proofread the previous manuscripts. There are some small mistakes. ”

Su You smiled: "Didn't Your Majesty let you cultivate?" I still can't stay idle. ”

Su Song put the book down: "I heard that your majesty saw it very late yesterday?" Has the matter of Dasu taken a turn for the better? ”

Su You said: "It's not a big crime in the first place, several newspapers are supporting Da Su, as well as Taixue, Guozijian, Your Majesty cleaned up the Yushitai and sent someone to supervise it from within, and I am not afraid of being framed." ”

Su Song sighed: "Public opinion, but public opinion is sometimes unfair. ”

"For example, Chen Shiru and his nineteen people were all beheaded, was the sentence excessive? When I left Kaifeng Mansion, I still didn't get ironclad evidence that Chen Shiru knew. ”

"Chen Shiru was killed, but he died more from public opinion than from legal evidence, and I think this is a kind of contempt for the laws of the Great Song Dynasty."

This is a "mistake" that is very easy for scholar-type officials like Su Song to make.

They have this almost stubborn attitude towards right and wrong.

Su You is different from them, although Su You also wears the coat of a scholar, but in fact, he is still the kind of pure official who pays attention to the lowest administrative cost and the greatest probability of correctness.

For example, in the case of Chen Shiru, in Su You's heart, even if there was a deviation in the implementation of the law and he was coerced by public opinion, it was just one more death.

Kuizhou, Shaanxi, Liangzhejiang Road, Nanhai, there are too many people who died because of him.

But Su You also knew that if one day, it was his turn to encounter something like Chen Shiru's, I am afraid that he would also hope that it would be a more serious judge like Su Song to try his case.

Law is concerned with fairness in the greatest sense, that is, "universal" fairness, even after a thousand years, and its nature is the same.

It does not protect exceptions and individuals.

In Su You's eyes, Chen Shiru is just a special case that has not been protected.

Looking at a small glass bottle the size of a thumb on Su Song's tabletop, there was a strange dark black crystalline with a metallic luster.

That's iodine.

The preparation of iodine is almost identical to the process of its discovery in real history.

The potassium nitrate preparation process in Liangzhelu is based on an important material that provides a potassium source - seagrass ash.

The chemists of the company used a solution of seaweed ash to react with calcium nitrate to prepare potassium nitrate.

Engineers have noticed that the process is treated with copper vessels, which can quickly corrode.

According to the relevant agreements of the workshops of Sitong, any unknown chemical phenomenon must be reported to the Chemical Research Institute of the headquarters and the Tianshi Mansion.

After analysis, Xiao Tianshi believed that the seaweed ash solution contained an unknown substance, which was interacting with copper, causing the corrosion of copper, so he began to set up a project for research.

The results came out quickly, and by mixing different reagents with the seaweed ash solution, when the reagent used sulfuric acid, a beautiful purple gas was released from the solution.

The most peculiar thing is that after condensation, this gas does not form a liquid, and directly turns into a dark black crystal with a metallic luster.

This not only discovered a new material, but also discovered a new physical phenomenon - gas can directly become solid, after discussion by the Academicians of the Royal Institute of Technology, this phenomenon is called - condensation.

Su You took the small bottle: "Let's go, go to Kaifeng Mansion to have a look, I know a way, maybe I can solve the mystery in your heart." ”

The two went out, called Shangping Zhengsheng, and walked towards Kaifeng Mansion in the southwest of the city.

When he came to Kaifeng Mansion and learned that the two Su scholars were visiting, Qian Zao hurried out to greet him.

Su You gave up his hand to Qian Zao: "You have to get Qian Gong to expose the actions of Shu Yan and other villains in a timely manner, and Su You has to ask for impeachment, and I have come to thank Qian Gong." ”

Qian Zao also returned the salute: "These are all official affairs, even if Qian Zao has great courage, he does not dare to deceive." ”

After speaking, he couldn't help but get angry: "Hmph, those villains, who impeach this and that on weekdays, thought that they must all be upright, but they turned out to be so filthy and despicable, they simply lost the face of their predecessors since Renying!" ”

Speaking of which, Su You and Su Song are also Qian Zao's predecessors, and Qian Zao admires their knowledge and character very much.

Especially after taking office in Kaifeng Prefecture, Su You left behind various investigation reports in the 16 counties of Gyeonggi during his tenure, as well as those magical reports, problem studies, solution attempts, emergency plans, etc., I can't help but be amazed.

It is no wonder that later generations have fulfilled the regulations of Xiao Su's bachelors, and it is indeed a clear outline.

After he and Su Song also met and sat down in the main hall, Qian Zao asked: "I don't know if the two bachelors are here, is there anything that Qian Zao needs to do?" ”